Upcoming R7DHRE Preparedness Webinar: Enhancing Healthcare Preparedness with National Weather Service Insights | April 9 | 1pm CT
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Upcoming R7DHRE Preparedness Webinar: Enhancing Healthcare Preparedness with National Weather Service Insights | April 9 | 1pm CT ---
Region VII Disaster Health Response Ecosystem
Together…
… we will create strategies & identify resources to support and enhance healthcare coalition, state, and regional response plans. Our philosophy is to build ecosystems for regional disaster health system responses.
Our goals:
improve coordination and capabilities within the region
enhance situational awareness
provide novel system solutions for health system and community response
Our Ecosystem:
INCLUSIVE: Expand outside of HCW facilities to include pre-hospital, EMA, community citizens
INTERCONNECTED: Create knowledge-sharing platforms that expand the lines of communication
REDUNDANT: ​Develop tiered systems for healthcare surge that grow capacity and specialty care access
DYNAMIC: Evolve and align response plans to be situationally adaptive
SELF-SUSTAINING: Explore economic incentives in various sectors to develop public-private partnerships for preparedness investment
EXPLORE
Highlights
Upcoming R7DHRE Events
R7DHRE Preparedness Webinar: Enhancing Healthcare Preparedness with National Weather Service Insights
April 9 | ZOOM
Disaster Management Emergency Preparedness (DMEP) Course
April 30 | Iowa City, IA
Fundamental Critical Care Support: Crisis Management
May 1 | Iowa City, IA
DASH Tool
The Disaster Available Supplies in Hospitals (DASH) is an interactive tool designed by ASPR TRACIE, with support from Healthcare Ready, that can help hospital emergency planners and supply chain staff estimate supplies that may need to be immediately available during various mass casualty incidents (MCI) and infectious disease emergencies based on hospital characteristics. The DASH Tool recommends average par levels for specific supplies that acute care hospitals may need to have on hand to respond to a disaster in their community until resupplied. Recommendations are based on user inputs about the size of the hospital, risks in the community, regional role/designation of the hospital, and other factors.
The DASH Tool is comprised of several modules which, taken together, can provide hospitals a holistic view of the supplies needed to address various types of incidents. Each module also incorporates pediatric sizes and specific medication needs as appropriate to the incident. Most users will elect to complete one module or a segment of the module per sitting as inputs cannot be saved in the tool. Please read the instructions and refer to them as you complete each module.
IV Fluid Disruption
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, hospitals across the U.S. are dealing with the impact of IV solution shortages due to the temporary shutdown of Baxter International's IV fluid manufacturing facility in North Carolina. The facility supplies around 60% of IV solutions used by hospitals in the U.S. every day, but Hurricane Helene has caused the plant to temporarily stop operations. The R7DHRE team has created a webpage for more information, resources, and situational updates regarding the current IV fluid disruption.
